cyber exploits

Three common types of software make you more vulnerable than you realize. While complete and thorough vulnerability management is next to impossible, a few simple steps go a long way toward reducing risk. Download this ebook to discover what steps to take to begin evolving away from patch management toward software and vulnerability management.
The hidden threat in securing your infrastructure from vulnerabilities lies with IT’s difficulty in managing third-party software.
2017 was billed as the worst on record for cybersecurity. No doubt, the continued rise of modern threat vectors has IT on high alert. In essence, IT professionals view their role as responsible for keeping the door shut. However, even with IT administrators keenly aware that most exploits can be averted simply by keeping the environment current, the task is no small feat and often isn’t done as well as it needs to be.

Human targeted attacks continued to lead the pack in 2016. Attackers’ used automation and personalisation to increase the volume and click-through rates of their campaigns. Taking a page from the B2B e-marketer’s playbook, cyber criminals are adopting marketing best practices and sending their campaigns on Tuesdays and Thursdays when click-through rates are higher. Meanwhile, BEC and credential phishing attacks targeted the human factor directly--no technical exploits needed. Instead, they used social engineering to persuade victims into sending money, sensitive information and account credentials.
Timing is everything—attackers know that hitting your employees with a well-crafted email at the just the right time produces the best results. Of course, this varies by region. So if you are responsible for worldwide SecOps, you need visibility into not only attack patterns but also when and which employees tend to click.

As the threat landscape evolves, so must our security controls and countermeasures. Recent research
from F5 Labs revealed that applications are the initial targets in the majority of breaches, suggesting
that any app can be an attack vector. Cybercriminals are moving their tactics further up the stack using
sophisticated application-layer exploits, as well as an emerging wave of automated, bot, and IoTbased
threats that are quite capable of evading simple signature or reputation-based detection.
Yet, the majority of WAFs on the market today have remained largely unchanged, leaving the applayer
exposed, unable to proactively monitor and protect against evolving attack vectors.

As the threat landscape evolves, so must our security controls and countermeasures. Recent research
from F5 Labs revealed that applications are the initial targets in the majority of breaches, suggesting
that any app can be an attack vector. Cybercriminals are moving their tactics further up the stack using
sophisticated application-layer exploits, as well as an emerging wave of automated, bot, and IoTbased
threats that are quite capable of evading simple signature or reputation-based detection.
Yet, the majority of WAFs on the market today have remained largely unchanged, leaving the applayer
exposed, unable to proactively monitor and protect against evolving attack vectors.

Exploits are one of the main techniques used by cybercriminals to spread malware. They take advantage of weaknesses in legitimate software products like Flash and Microsoft Office to infect computers for their criminal ends. A single exploit can be used by myriad separate pieces of malware, all with different payloads.
Read this paper to learn more about exploits and how to stop them. We’ll explore how exploits work, the exploit industry overall, what makes a good exploit in the eyes of the cybercriminals, and also how anti-exploit technology is a highly efficient and effective way to secure your organization against advanced and unknown threats.

Many papers on the topic of advanced persistent threats (APTs) begin with ominous references to the changing threat landscape and stories of how highly sophisticated cyber attacks are becoming more prevalent. That can be misleading. The majority of attacks today still use many techniques that have been around for years—social engineering, phishing emails, backdoor exploits and drive-by downloads, to name the biggest ones.
Such attacks are neither advanced nor particularly sophisticated when broken down into their individual components and often rely on the weakest link in any organization—the user. However, the way in which hackers use combinations of techniques and the persistent behavior of the attackers is something that does set APTs apart from other attempts to compromise security.
This paper is designed to give you an overview of the common characteristics of APTs, how they typically work, and what kind of protection is available to help reduce the risk of an attack.

In 2014, hackers and cyber thieves will continue to change their tactics, using new exploits to infect systems and steal data. This Executive Brief discusses the top five malware trends to keep an eye out for in 2014 and how Webroot SecureAnywhere can provide the endpoint protection that companies will need to be safe in 2014.

While advanced persistent threats and malware still plague some victims, it is ransomware that is still gaining real traction in today’s cybersecurity landscape. The EternalBlue flaw that took over the news in May 2017 rose to popularity as a result of its inclusion in the data leaked by The Shadow Brokers. Utilized in multiple attacks alongside the also-released DoublePulsar exploit, including the installation of cryptocurrency miner Adylkuzz, the exploits are just the tip of the cyberwarfare tools The Shadow Brokers are claiming to have in their arsenal. The latest EternalBlue and DoublePulsar based attacks, delivering the WannaCry Ransomware, have so far been hugely damaging to healthcare organizations while also impacting over 200,000 endpoints in 150 countries. WannaCry-WanaCryptor 2.0 was coupled with the EternalBlue exploit, allowing it to automatically propagate itself to vulnerable machines across the Internet. While not technically advanced, the use of EternalBlue and DoubleP

Cyber attacks are growing every day and become serious threats to your organization, but how do you know and understand the threats out there? Download a copy of this book, and you discover the zero-day exploits and threats used to compromise your enterprise. You also learn about a promising new technology developed by Trusteer, an IBM company, which provides effective yet transparent protection to enterprise endpoints. Start reading Stopping Zero-Day Exploits For Dummies, Trusteer Special Edition, today!

Cyber attacks are growing every day and become serious threats to your organization, but how do you know and understand the threats out there? Download a copy of this book, and you discover the zero-day exploits and threats used to compromise your enterprise. You also learn about a promising new technology developed by Trusteer, an IBM company, which provides effective yet transparent protection to enterprise endpoints. Start reading Stopping Zero-Day Exploits For Dummies, Trusteer Special Edition, today!

As cyberattacks and fraud continue to increase in frequency and sophistication, organizations are placing a greater emphasis on cyberthreat intelligence as a way to protect against compromise, data breach, and losses from online fraud. Measuring the true value of threat intelligence has been difficult however.
For the first time the Ponemon Institute has conducted a study that reveals the facts behind the impact that weak threat intelligence is having on organizations.